Enjoy Table Top Beer At City Tavern

The table taps at City Tavern are a novelty you won’t find anywhere else with three craft brews available on select tables.

Photo by Sallie Oto

Poutine (front) and fried grits (back).

Posted Oct. 10, 2012, 1:49 am

Sallie Oto / Mirror Contributor

When the first thing that comes out of your mouth is “it’s like a tactile orgasm” – there are three things you simultaneously think:

1) I hope nobody heard that.

2) Yep, they did, those people right there are looking at you with a strange expression.

3) The food and drink better be just as good.

Luckily, City Tavern in Culver City pulls through. Just as you would hope from a place that is as hip as to have walls coated in blackboard paint, hand-made tables from old barn wood, gnarly-cool lights made from re-purposed metals, and coveted booth seating with “table taps,” City Tavern is the exact opposite of stuffy.

It is also the first state approved establishment to offer a computerized draft beer system at three booths where patrons can pour their own beer – three craft beers – at their table.

Why you know it: City Tavern is the little brother to “up the block” Rush Street.

Why you’ll love it: Table-taps for select booths. Quirky spins on classic food and drink – like seasonal beer popsicles nestled in pop rocks, and the chef’s understandable obsession with bacon. Beer is served in milk bottles during happy hour.